Alright, after two months of tune dropping, I guess, it's about time to recall the last tune from Masters at Work mix, before we move on to the next one (there was 4 in total, including the Plaid mix, which I just don't have anymore).
Like you have already realized from all the previous posts, this mix was a nice guide through Hip Hop's rare samples, future classics and musical foundations. And "It's Just Begun" was only half-way through it, exploding with delayed "begun-gun-gun-gun-gun..." into a house beat. "A house beat?" Well, yes. It was the summer of 1999 and the disco-house fever was at its ultimate peak. Hits like "King of My Castle", "Feeling For You", "Music Sounds Better with You", "Turn Around", "Canned Heat", "Groovejet", "Sing It Back (Remix)" were ruling the charts and the dancefloors of the world. And funk groove that was in the backbone of these tunes was hypnotizing me.
But this particular tune was different: very well arranged, continuously developing between parts, it was a more "true" (of sorts) interpretation of the long abandoned genre. I didn't know yet, that this was a remix of a cover of the song from that era. But after all these years I can tell, that it gives a lot of justice to the original.
This will probably be nearly the only house tune in my blog, but hell yeah, it has an undeniable place in my musical biography.
Like you have already realized from all the previous posts, this mix was a nice guide through Hip Hop's rare samples, future classics and musical foundations. And "It's Just Begun" was only half-way through it, exploding with delayed "begun-gun-gun-gun-gun..." into a house beat. "A house beat?" Well, yes. It was the summer of 1999 and the disco-house fever was at its ultimate peak. Hits like "King of My Castle", "Feeling For You", "Music Sounds Better with You", "Turn Around", "Canned Heat", "Groovejet", "Sing It Back (Remix)" were ruling the charts and the dancefloors of the world. And funk groove that was in the backbone of these tunes was hypnotizing me.
But this particular tune was different: very well arranged, continuously developing between parts, it was a more "true" (of sorts) interpretation of the long abandoned genre. I didn't know yet, that this was a remix of a cover of the song from that era. But after all these years I can tell, that it gives a lot of justice to the original.
This will probably be nearly the only house tune in my blog, but hell yeah, it has an undeniable place in my musical biography.
P. S. From next week, I'll be going through the Jazzanova live/mix, so stay tuned. :)
